rashbre central: twitter abandoned at last

Monday, 4 November 2024

twitter abandoned at last

I've abandoned twitter now. It surprises me it has taken so long. The 'free speech' version has become infected with banal and often offensive tweets, many of which now vector to other time wasting platforms like tik-tok and similar.

There's no point in going to another copy platform either. I'd rather rely on the information that I select than on what a publishing bot increasingly curates.

The dilemma is that like Hotel California, I can check-out but never leave. I experienced this once on Meta, when I dropped a Facebook id which was quickly harvested by someone else. It is best to simply leave the twitter userids languishing but still under my ownership. Oh yes, and I'll keep my automatic posts to the platform, but really don't think I'll need to read it again.

And I get back so much free time.


1 comment:

Rob McMinn said...

I abandoned Twitter as soon as it was taken over. I tried Mastodon for a while but gave up on it because it was too techy and there was too much scolding. I'm enjoying Bluesky, though. Be great to see you over there!